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To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 19 August 1775 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from Major General Artemas Ward, 19 Aug. 1775. On 20 Aug. Horatio Gates wrote on behalf of GW to Ward: “The General has this moment received Your Letter of yesterday, he is surprized to hear that the men you Mention are posted in so insecure & defenceless a Scituation, & wishes you would repair to Squantum, & examine into all the Circumstances, & if you think it prudent, Order all the Stock, & Sheep, to be drove off the peninsula. . . . Inclosed I return you the representation of the Lt Col. & Officers at in Command at Squantum.”1

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    To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 19 August 1775 [letter not found]
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    Ward, Artemas
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    Washington, George
    Date
    19 August 1775

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    “To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 19 August 1775 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-01-02-0229. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 1, 16 June 1775 – 15 September 1775, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985, p. 329.]

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